Ian Hacking: Making up people Flashcards
2 kinds of knowledge
expert knowledge
popular knowledge
expert knowledge
knowledge of the professional
popular knowledge
shared by significant part of the interested population
the five-part framework include
classification
people
experts
knowledge
institutions
dynamic nominalism
characterizes the ways our descriptive practices of naming interact with things named
the 10 engines of making up people
count
quantify
create norms
correlate
medicalise
biologise
geneticise
normalise
bureaucratise
reclaim our identity/resistance
ongoing feedback effect
the system determines who needs help and create special services for those. In return, the criteria used by the system defined what is categorized as autism
transcient mental illness
existing only at a certain time and place
nominalism
doctrine that universal/general ideas are mere names without any corresponding reality
biologise
to recognize a biological foundation for the problems that beset a class of people (frees person from responsibility)
moving targets
our examinations interact with people (we diagnose) + change them > resulting in different set of people than those we initially targeted
commodification
something is reconstructed in such a way taht it can be traded ib narjets
INDIVIDUALITY HAS TO BE “TRANSLATED” IN COMPARABLE MEASURES
reification
created concept is often named + discussed that we take it simply as a thing that exist in nature
critical issues raised against classification + DSM
stigma
reification
commodification
dominant attributions
lack of contenxt. meaning, personalized narrative, hope
looping effect
- name category
- it affects people diagnosed
- the effect influences the naming
